Sharp Coaching

Taking the seemingly mundane case study of people boarding and alighting trams, actually provides a rich canvas for analysing the way people embody valuable capital......

Tram watching: a sociological case study Taking the seemingly mundane act of people boarding trams, provides a rich canvas for analysing the embodiment of valuable capital...

Our identity is not some unchangeable concept that is oblivious to the outside world. Rather, it is in a constant state of flux, where we are adjusting, moulding, and reassessing our identities in the context of historical and cultural effects and implications......

Identities are historically and culturally contingent; the case of Cuban migrants in the 1960s Identity is not some unchangeable concept oblivious to the outside world. Rather, it is in a constant state of flux affected by historical and cultural elements...

In this essay, I contend that the increasingly prolific role of ‘credentialing’ by employers in industrialised societies, is placing exacting pressures upon older workers (those aged 40+) who are, both directly and implicitly, required to validate their experience and skills via the mode of formalised educational credentials. In an increasingly globalised and thus competitive workforce, many older workers are engaging in ‘defensive’ educational credentialing, despite misgivings about both its practical value in performing their jobs, and the effects upon the stratification and perceptions of inequality amongst workers within the organisation in which they operate....

Let’s see your papers: the effects of credentialing on older workers Despite the accumulation of experience and skills, many older workers feel obliged to upgrade their skills through formal educational qualifications...

In this essay, I contend that rather than viewing individuals as attempting to resist the imposition of corporate power into various aspects of their lives, we can view their behaviour as more of a continual and complex negotiation of the establishment and consolidation of various identities within the corporate framework. To this end, I argue we can broadly observe these frictions to fit within one of three parameters: attempted systemic identity arbitration by groups: individual negotiation of personhood; and determination of identity and maintenance of status through corporate compliance....

The complex negotiation of worker identities within the corporate framework Constant friction between individuals’ personhood and identity within workplaces, is a necessary component in the development of a corporation’s own identity…